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Product DescriptionThe global dash of the intrepid Phileas Fogg is accompanied by lavish illustrations that depict remarkable period scenes that evince for younger readers such cultures as Victorian England and the American Wild West.Author Margaret Kell Virany finds a romantic love story from the roaring Twenties buried in letters, journals, diaries and photos left to her by her parents. This 70-page e-book with 12 authentic photos pins readers’ eyes to a spark of attraction ignited in World War I that develops into an eternal flame in the snowy expanses and frozen lakes of up North with Manitoba’s Cree people.
Author Margaret Kell Virany finds a romantic love story from the roaring Twenties buried in letters, journals, diaries and photos left to her by her parents. This 70-page e-book with 12 authentic photos pins readers’ eyes to a spark of attraction ignited in World War I that develops into an eternal flame in the snowy expanses and frozen lakes of up North with Manitoba’s Cree people.
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Kathleen’s Cariole Ride The global dash of the intrepid Phileas Fogg is accompanied by lavish illustrations that depict remarkable period scenes that evince for younger readers such cultures as Victorian England and the American Wild West.Author Margaret Kell Virany finds a romantic love story from the roaring Twenties buried in letters, journals, diaries and photos left to her by her parents. This 70-page e-book with 12 authentic photos pins readers’ eyes to a spark of attraction ignited in World War I that develops into an eternal flame in the snowy expanses and frozen lakes of up North with Manitoba’s Cree people. As a travel story it reveals the excitement of serving in action with the Canadian Navy in WWI, flying from London to Paris in 1917, crossing the Atlantic on steamships, canoeing up the fur trade route, and going on a winter trek in a cariole. This is the ancient, original toboggan aboriginals invented in the high Arctic to be pulled by dog teams. It was large and comfortable, to be used on special occasions or for special people. The French Canadians in the 19th century renamed it a cariole and sometimes pulled it by horses. Another facet of the story is the account of life on a Swampy Cree reservation and the positive role of missionaries in that era. Virany has kept much of the material from her 188-page book, A Book of Kells, but Kathleen’s Cariole Ride focuses only on her parents’ exciting love story and life with the Natives. The rewritten, restructured book has a new theme, many photos and is half the size of the original. The author’s parents were an unlikely pair. Kathleen Ward was a city councillor’s daughter from Portsmouth, England (pop. 190,000) and John Ambrose Campbell Kell (JACK or Jack) was a farmer from Cookstown, Ontario, Canada (pop. 550 not counting the pigs, horses and cows). They met in 1917 when her father, a Sunday School teacher, invited some colonial servicemen home for tea. Nostalgia and facts are relived intimately as the story moves on past the tragedies of war to the impossibility of a transatlantic courtship conducted over 5,000 miles between fog and bog. With many adventures, 72 flimsy letters get through and Cupid’s will is done. She asks him to come over for another look before she decides and he does, twice. The story doesn’t end there. A baby is born after Virany digs deeply into her literary skills to describe the cariole ride that gets them to hospital after a preposterous winter trek. When the baby is one-and-one half years old the family leaves the North to live a more usual life farther south. This love story is in the knight-and-lady courtly love tradition. Basically, what Jack and Kathleen had in common was that they had read the same books (good, classical ones and the Bible). Texting in those days meant you lived by a text. They honestly tried to behave well, they stuck to their marriage vows, were best friends and rescued each other when they got into trouble. They knew how lovers behaved in great tragedies and comedies. Theirs was a comedy. They were together for over 60 years and died natural deaths at over age 90.
Author Margaret Kell Virany finds a romantic love story from the roaring Twenties buried in letters, journals, diaries and photos left to her by her parents. This 70-page e-book with 12 authentic photos pins readers’ eyes to a spark of attraction ignited in World War I that develops into an eternal flame in the snowy expanses and frozen lakes of up North with Manitoba’s Cree people.
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